Last night I decided to use my most recently acquired Raspberry Pi as a replacement for the windows laptop running the echolink software linking the NF9k and K3HTK repeaters.
Unfortunately since the RasPi is based upon the ARM processor, there are no readily available binaries for the Pidora/RasPi platform. So I downloaded the tarball and sat out on the path of compiling it for myself. It took me the better part of about three hours to track down all of the dependencies that popped up early in the make process. I went to bed with it happily compiling.
When I got up this morning, I discovered that the build had broken on another dependency. So it was lather, rinse, repeat. After tracking down three or four more dependancies, I am happy to report that I have successfully built and installed SvxLink on my RasPi!
Tonight I plan to install a Senheiser USB sound card as well as the AMI Echolink USB board and see what happens. If all goes well, we might be able to begin testing this evening….. Fingers crossed!
